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Book SynopsisPreston, 1981. Maud, who is twelve and lives with her dysfunctional parents and her elder brother, spends a lot of her time in her bedroom writing letters to her favourite popstar, Tom Harding, the lead singer of a punk band called Horsefly.
No one really understands her or tries to – and she thinks Tom just might have some answers to her many, many questions...
Trade Review'Maud is the funniest teenager since Adrian Mole ... A beautiful book about hope and perseverance' Robin Ince
'Brilliantly transports readers back to the innocence of an Eighties adolescence ... Though Maud wouldn't realise it in a million years, it's a total joy to spend time with her' Alex Lowe
'The laughs just keep coming – peppered with gut-punches, it's an Adrian Mole for the twenty-first century. A beautiful novel' Lizzie Roper
'A hilarious and heartbreaking fan letter to the confused teenagers we once were, and the confused adults we become' Geoff Lloyd